Artificial Limbs
Virginia Amputees Challenge Insurance Lobby to Compromise
Published in Lab Law Weekly, February 20th, 2009
Virginia's insurance lobby continues to fight hard against passage of a bill that would require insurance companies to offer coverage for artificial limbs as an option to their policyholders. The insurance industry wants to continue treating prosthetic limbs as a medical luxury while amputees demand that the costs be treated the same as other major medical expenses. To make progress in their efforts, amputees offered a compromise and ask the insurance companies to work with them on taking a step in the right direction.
On Thursday in Virginia's General Assembly, Senator Fred Quayle, one of the bill's (SB 1116) supporters recently amended the proposed legislation's...
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Source: Lab Law Weekly (2009-02-20)
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